Excerpt from Ageless: The Naked Truth About Bioidentical Hormones
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The Women's Health Initiative Study hoped to show decreases in:
Those of us who were on the original birth control pills for any length of time were actually on synthetic hormones- strong synthetic hormones. Any wonder why women of our generation are under siege from an epidemic of breast and ovarian cancers? There is a link, and you'll learn more about it in this book.
- breast cancer
- stroke
- pulmonary embolism
- colorectal cancer
- endometrial cancer
- hip fracture
- death due to any cause
- 29 percent increase in coronary heart disease
- 41 percent increase in strokes
- 22 percent increase in cardiovascular disease
- 2,100 percent (yes, this is correct) increase in pulmonary embolism—lung blood clots
- 26 percent increase in breast cancer
Those of us who were on the original birth control pills for any length of time were actually on synthetic hormones- strong synthetic hormones. Any wonder why women of our generation are under siege from an epidemic of breast and ovarian cancers? There is a link, and you'll learn more about it in this book.
Excerpted from Ageless by Suzanne Somers. Copyright © 2006 by Suzanne Somers. Excerpted by permission of Crown, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.